The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-03
EXPRESSIONS OF THE STATE PRESS.

may be murderer who is murdered. but the
acs OF taking human life. without due pro-
cess OF law, is murder all the same.
| Shelbyville Republican: High license and
local option constituts the proper treatment for
the liquor traffic in Indiana. Let the Legisla-
ture brace itself up to the exigencies of the &C.
casion.
| Auburn Dispatch: It yet remains to be dis
covered how every voter In country may
nave his vote fairly cast and counted despite
brlbers and bulldozers. No one should allow
another to dictate to him creed for belief or a
| ballot for voting
Middletown News: To choose ignorance where
education may be had is to choose the wrong.
10 choose to do wrong where right may be done
| is criminal. Crimes are amenable tolaw Why.
then, cannot and ought not, education to be
made compulsory?
Fort Wayne Gazette: Dispatches from Mis-
souri, say that an enormous cave has been dis
covered in that State This probably relates tn IN
vast hole which the reinstatement of District
Attorney Benton made in the tattered fabric of
civil-service reform
Wabash Courier With about one-half the
Democratic press demanding the nomination Of
Cleveland in 1885, while the other half predicts
his defeat in the event of his nomination. one Is
Ct loss to understand just what is meant bv
Democratic harmony
Fort Wayne Gazette The Democratic partv
mas no leader either in or out of Congress- Il
needs no leader: A party without pnrpose. ex-
cept to go for the Offices, is simply free-for all
foraginR party, and the man that can sernra III a
most plumber is the best Democrat This i.
modern Democracy.
Rochester Republican: The Democratic marty
mas for twenty five years done nothing but ait
on the fence and criticse Republican methods
anu row at the prosperity OF the Nation. 1t is
now making an effort to saddle its own confusion
OF mind on the Republican party, and to hold
that party responsible for its own helplessness.
Elkhart Review: Take the tax of tobacco the
hrst thing, because that is a necessity. which
every one' man, woman or child, must have and
u III De such relief to the burdens of life
Ihat Is the true Democratic economy Take the
tax on those articles that will be the creates.
rellet to the Democratic voter. Include whisky.
and you'll grant relief, indeed.
Valparaiso Vidette Much that we attemnt to
90 oy law In regulating private morals is inn
practicaoie, ana Will have to be in due time rel
ePated to self-rue and moral suasion as the onlv
arolters within the bounds of perfect harmless
liberty, combining force of law to the protection
, Hl eacn one from injury by others as the proper
limit OF the governmental province.
Lawrencebure Press When a few won,a.he
smart Democratic leaders corcocted the inf am
Gus gerry mander in the shortsiehted belief that
IL iortlned them in power, they that moment
n IT certain that they would be overthrown:
II not this year thoroughly, then the next tins
the people get an opportunity. For there is q
controlling balance of just and fair mon in both
parties who abhor the Vaccinations of political
prostitutes. s
Lagrange Standards The people have l,onestlv
overcome the infamous gerrymander calculated
70 elge the Democrats seventy majority in the
next Legislature, SO far as to cause tie on Joint
oailot Ii there is any honest and lawful wav
70 secure majority by further rightinp Of
wrongs or corrections Of Irregularities. so az In
reflect Ben Harrison and clean up the benevo
lent institutions, the people would like to SEES
their delegates In the Assembly do 1t.
Monticello Herald: The indications ara that
General Harrison will be his own successor Ali
tnls warlike talk among Democratic newspapers
tnat the race OF the returns which, it is claimed
show Democratic majority, must be adhered
TO or revolutionary methods win be inaueurated.
IS only idle and very harmless wind We had |
sample OF one of their s'saueuinaryr engage
ments in 1876. The fight In Indiana will be Az |
oioodiess on the re election Of General Harrison.
Lafayette Call: Public patronage means in. |
evltaoly. public corruption. This fact has been |
80 we'll demonstrated that men should onlv diffar
as to methods for its betterment The erest
shame OF our country is that state of affairs |
which makes the inspiration Of campaign enthu
sfasm the appetite for DOODLE So long Al the |
vast amount Of patronage is put ND TO feed and |
aegravate the venality Of the blood sucker
o. politics. just that long will the
concerns Of the state be lost in the shame.
less uproar. taste for this sort of feeding
grows upon partisan like leprosy upon the
body. 1t scandalizes the whole Nation as IL has
10 the last two years scaEdaized the State of
Indiana politicians under the whip and spur
u party spirit may be pardoned for standing In
The way OF this progress. but mon about to omit
the stage, and whose years should Give
them discretion, il not wisdom, ought to ponder
Well before they place themselves on record IA
against . reform SO, needed and so bound to
come. '"